Archinect - Features

Brand New Reviews Logos of the 10 Most-Followed Firm Profiles on Archinect

2018-02-14T11:00:00-05:00

Logos are the cornerstone of branding, presenting the uniqueness of a company through its visual representation. Choices in color, font, sizing, etc. are all indicators of the values, services, and type of company the logo is defining, and the difference between a good logo, and one less successful, lies in the visual's ability to accurately convey those traits.

Announcing the winners of Archinect UK Portfolio Competition 2017!

2017-07-27T04:09:00-04:00

Earlier this year, we launched the UK portfolio competition to celebrate and expose the wealth of fantastic work already up on Archinect as well as to encourage individuals not registered to upload and share their work with our global online community.

From the Farnsworth to Wikileaks: Metahaven on Transparency, Propaganda and Design

2017-03-30T06:15:00-04:00

Where are we? Somewhere in Eastern Ukraine, July 18, 2014—the day after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down, killing all 238 passengers as well as the fifteen crew members on board. Later, Russian media would suggest that the shooting was an attempt to assassinate Vladimir Putin; that it was shot down by Ukrainians by mistake; that Ukrainian air traffic controllers had intentionally misdirected the plane over a war zone; that it was an attempt to smear the pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. Other stories spread: the plane was filled with 100 AIDS researchers or already-dead bodies and explosives. Eventually, the news cycle moved on.

Documenting Stefan Sagmeister's Meticulous, Entertaining Solipsism in "The Happy Film"

2016-10-07T14:34:00-04:00

Graphic designer par excellence Stefan Sagmeister, bored with creating iconic album covers for The Talking Heads and Lou Reed (among others), decided to document his search for love and greater meaning over a six year period with collaborators Ben Nabors and the late Hillman Curtis. The result, "The Happy Film", is an occasionally affecting tour of one man’s methodical, gorgeous solipsism.

Screen/Print #43: 'Beautifully Banal' by Architecture Hero

2016-08-24T09:00:00-04:00

Beautifully Banal, a marvelously detailed, narrative-driven exploration of architectural drawing types via a fly’s structural adventures, is both a slender comic and an architectural delight.

Screen/Print #26: Intern Magazine, interview with Jessica Walsh of Sagmeister & Walsh

2014-10-20T16:58:00-04:00

Intern Magazine is devoted to “intern culture” in the creative industries, elevating the talents of an oft under-valued workforce in a classy, bi-annual glossy. Part polemic and part showcase, the magazine is dissatisfied upfront with the current state of unpaid/underpaid intern labor, and hopes its pages can provoke a reevaluation of the too-often exploited population.

Cover Page Archive

2004-11-03T13:00:41-05:00

From September 1999 to November 2001 we commissioned many of the most groundbreaking designers in the emerging new web design medium to design a monthly cover page for Archinect. The mission was to create a cover page invoking an architectural theme, using the tools that each designer was most comfortable working with.